Stefan Konstantinovich Izbinsky (Izbinski, Isbinski) (17 July 1884, Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

 – 28 April 1912, Kiev) was a Ukrainian chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He tied for 9-10th in the Kiev 1903 chess tournament

Kiev 1903 chess tournament

The 3rd All-Russian Masters' Tournament took place in the rooms of the Kiev Chess Society in the Popov Building at No. 29 Kreshchatyk in Kiev on September 1–26, 1903...

 (the 3rd All-Russian masters' Tournament

Russian Chess Championship

-Imperial Russia:In 1874, Emanuel Schiffers defeated Andrey Chardin in a match held in St. Petersburg with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first Russian champion until his student, Mikhail Chigorin, defeated him in a match held in St. Petersburg in 1879...

, Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin also was a leading Russian chess player...

 won), tied for 8-10th at St. Petersburg 1905/06 (the 4th All-Russian Masters' Tournament, Gersz Salwe

Gersz Salwe

Gersz Salwe was a Polish chess player.-Biography:Salwe was born into a Jewish family in Warsaw ....

 won), took 13th at St. Petersburg 1909 (All-Russian Amateur Tournament, Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

 won), shared 3rd with Paul List

Paul List

Paul M. List was a Ukrainian–German–British chess player.He was born in Odessa, Ukraine . He had a separate chess career in each of the 3 countries he lived in – Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom....

 at Odessa 1910 (Boris Verlinsky

Boris Verlinsky

Boris Markovich Verlinsky was a Ukrainian-Russian International Master of chess. He was one of the top Soviet players of the 1920s, and was in the top 20 in the world in 1926, clearly of Grandmaster strength at that time...

 won), shared 1st with Efim Bogoljubow

Efim Bogoljubow

Efim Dmitriyevich Bogolyubov was a Russo-German chess grandmaster who won numerous events and played two matches with Alexander Alekhine for the world championship.-Early career:...

 and lost a play-off match against him (+0 –2 =0) at Kiev 1911, and took 2nd, behind Fedor Bogatyrchuk

Fedor Bogatyrchuk

Fedir Parfenovych Bohatyrchuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian International Master of chess, and an...

, at Kiev 1911.